The rectangular back flanked by out-scrolled arms with cabochon clasps, the serpentine frame carved with shells, scrolls and acanthus, on shell-carved cabriole legs with scrolled toes, covered in associated needlework, the petit-point sections centering the back and seat each circa mid-eighteenth century, inserted into gros-point framing circa nineteenth century, the back rail with an applied Stair & Co., New York, trade label faintly inscribed '62214'
37¹⁄₄ in. (95 cm.) high, 30 in. (76.5 cm.) wide, 31³⁄₄ in. (81 cm.) deep

With Stair & Company, New York.

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This armchair relates quite closely to an example formerly in the Noel Terry Collection, one of the best collections of mid-18th century furniture assembled from 1918 to 1980. The present chair exhibits only slight variations to the Terry example, notably to the ends design of the armrest supports (see: P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, York, 1987, p. 60, pl. 60).